Johann Georg Moser (architect)

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Johann Georg Moser (born October 15, 1761 in Eutin ; † March 6, 1818 in Berlin ) was a German architect and Prussian construction clerk .

Life

Moser was born as the son of the court sculptor Johann Georg Moser and his second wife Catharina Margarethe Packendorff in Eutin , where his father worked as a sculptor and plasterer at the Eutin court. The father's second marriage had four daughters and four sons, including the sculptor Jacob Friedrich (baptized April 22, 1752 in Eutin) and Peter Rudolph (baptized November 19, 1763 in Eutin). The third brother also learned the carving trade in his father's workshop, which was in the father's house. Moser's half-brother August Friedrich Moser came from his father's first marriage and succeeded his father as court sculptor in Eutin.

Nothing is known about Moser's training. In 1785 at the latest, he joined the Royal High Court Building Authority in Berlin as a conductor and worked under the direction of Carl von Gontard and Georg Christian Unger , his future father-in-law.

Until 1788, Moser was the site manager for the construction of the Rosenthaler Tor according to a design by Gontard, the first site manager was Unger. In 1788 he was appointed building inspector at the Oberhofbauamt, from 1795 he held the title of town planning officer and since 1800 senior building officer. From 1790 to 1796 Moser was a professor at the Architectural School of the Academy of Arts ; in this position he was replaced by Heinrich Gentz . In 1796 Moser drafted building regulations for the city of Berlin.

Together with Friedrich Gilly , Moser designed the Lottum house in Behrenstrasse 68 in Berlin in 1799/1800 , with the facade design being mainly done by Gilly and the interior design by Moser. Also in 1800, under Moser's direction, the extension buildings at the Alte Charité , which Unger had begun in 1785, were completed.

During the construction of the National Theater on Gendarmenmarkt based on the design by Carl Gotthard Langhans , Moser was in charge of construction from 1800 to 1802. In 1804 Moser traveled to France and Italy, where he stayed for four weeks in Rome with Karl Friedrich Schinkel .

In 1810, Moser was under discussion as director for the newly founded palace building commission that had emerged from the Oberhofbauamt , but Gentz ​​received this office. In 1811 he became a member of the government building commission for Berlin as senior building officer, of which he was a member until his death. During this time work was carried out on the Long Bridge and, from 1816, construction management at the Neue Wache according to Schinkel's design.

Johann Georg Moser was married to Johanna Margaretha Christiana Leitholdt (1767–1847), daughter of the royal Prussian master craftsman and temporary owner of Klein-Glienicke Johann Georg Leitholdt (1728–1778) from Bayreuth and Johanna Elisabeth Rüdiger (1740–1814 ) since 1785 , married in second marriage to the court architect Georg Christian Unger from Bayreuth). The marriage resulted in two daughters and four sons, including the Prussian captain and garrison building director Johann Georg Carl Friedrich David von Moser (1786–1842; ennobled in 1837) and Carl August Wilhelm von Moser (1807–1869; ennobled in 1861), Premier Lieutenant, Lord to Groß- and Klein-Ziethen and the Prussian Knighthood Council. The writer Gustav von Moser was his grandson.

Moser's sister Juliane Margarethe Moser (1768–1822) married Captain Johann Carl Ferdinand Penne (1769–1812), their daughter Caroline Auguste was the mother of Hermann von Helmholtz .

Johann Georg Moser must not be confused with Johann Friedrich Moser, who also worked for the Prussian building administration .

plant

  • 1785–1788: Construction management Rosenthaler Tor, Berlin (design by Carl v. Gontard)
  • 1799–1800: Lottum House, Behrenstrasse 68, Berlin (together with Friedrich Gilly)
  • 1800: Alte Charité, Berlin (started by Georg Christian Unger in 1785)
  • 1800–1802: Construction management of the National Theater on Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin (design by Carl Gotthard Langhans)
  • 1816–1818: Repair work on the Long Bridge, Berlin
  • 1816–1818: Construction management Neue Wache (design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel)

literature

  • Uwe Kieling: Berlin. Buildings and master builders: From the Gothic to 1945. Berlin Edition, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3814800958 .
  • Reinhart Route and Christiane Brandt-Salloum: Inventory on the history of the Prussian building administration 1723 - 1848. Secret State Archive, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3923579063 .
  • Gisela Thietje: Moser, Johann Georg. In: Hans F. Rothert (Ed.). Biographical lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1991, ISBN 978-3529026492 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gisela Thietje: Moser, Friedrich August . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pages 233-234.
  2. ↑ Klaus Jan Philipp: Around 1800. Architectural theory and architectural criticism in Germany between 1790 and 1810. Menges, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 978-3930698769 , p. 251.
personal data
SURNAME Moser, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and builder
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Eutin
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1818
Place of death Berlin